Before taking a seat, Tan Zixian raised his wrist slightly and glanced at his watch.
"Thirty minutes should be enough."
If the conversation is too long, the conversation will become more and more rigid, and you will not be able to get out of the dead end; if it is too short, it is not good, either you can't talk or you have already started a fight - he thinks it should be appropriate to go back in thirty minutes, even if the two really fight. It's also just enough to make people feel happy but not to the point of being disabled.
He found a place to sit, then calmly tapped the hardwood bar with his index finger to get the bartender to come over, looking very used to the bar environment: "Let them talk about their own business, we drink ours. Look at you. What wine do you want?"
I didn't hear Qi Yin's answer for a long time, and looked sideways, seeing that his eyes were still fixed on the direction he came from, his face was solemn, as if he was worried about the progress of the conversation.
Tan Zixian snapped his fingers in front of him, he snapped back to reality and smiled embarrassedly: "Sorry, what did you just ask me?"
The corner of Tan Zixian's lips lifted slightly, and he took the cocktail name handed over by the bartender, but did not give Qi Wei a copy of the cocktail, and monopolized the right to choose: "It's too late, if you don't answer, I will decide for you. I'm still distracted when I drink, so I'll order you the most expensive one, which will make you feel distressed."
"Haha," Qi Jin really laughed this time, sat down next to him, and said generously, "Let's order it, and order your cup as well. I'll pay the bill, it's an apology."
Tan Zixian ordered two cocktails that the store recommends. The one for Qi Jin was a thin golden wine with a base of colorless rum and brandy, and he chose absinthe for himself. A milky white wine paired with wine and champagne. Both are spirits, but the former is slightly inferior to the latter.
After listening to the bartender's introduction, Qi Jin gently stopped Tan Zixian when he placed the order: "You want to record tomorrow, would you like to drink such a strong wine?"
Tan Zixian smiled lightly: "Don't worry, I often drink this kind of wine, I'm used to it, and I'm good at drinking. What about you?"
Qi Wei smiled and said, "I'm not bad at drinking. I have to accompany the leader to drink when I usually socialize. I've practiced it."
At this moment, I suddenly thought of the night he and Shen Yan drank together - that rainy night, Shen Yan took his hand drowsily, like a dazed child letting him lead the way, and suddenly hugged him by the door He, begged him in a low voice not to go... Finally, in the sound of the rain outside the window, they had their first kiss on that bed, and the first time they embraced each other and slept with warmth.
The past was replayed scene by scene like a movie, and a touch of warmth could not help flowing in his eyes.
"He's a poor drinker," he didn't say who "he" was referring to, but anyone could guess in such a doting tone, "A glass of red wine can make him drunk, although he is very intoxicated when he is drunk. cute."
"Well, that guy's alcohol intake is also very poor." Tan Zixian's words below are like a small drop of ink sinking below the surface of the water. The sound is not loud, but the ink spreads in the water at once, just like the slight shock in Qi Qin's heart. The shock, "This, it's probably a family inheritance-"
Qi Jin was stunned for a while, and the language was interrupted for a moment.
He stared blankly at Tan Zixian, blinking his eyes a few times, and it took him a while to find his voice and ability to think.
"You said… "
"I said, it's a family heritage." The person next to him repeated it slowly, took a sip of the wine without changing his face, "You'll know sooner or later anyway."
Qi Jin heard herself take a breath, and subconsciously covered her mouth.
His heart seemed to be hitting his temples, and the rapid flow of blood made him a little dizzy.
"How could it be... That guy, his surname is not Shen..." Because he was too shocked, he was still muttering to himself in denial at the end.
Tan Zixian took over at this time.
"Yes, but his mother's surname is Shen—"
"Shen".
This surname and the people under this surname should have been the most embarrassing and inappropriate topic. However, Shen Yan chose to take the initiative to mention it.
Hearing that the other party spoke first, Qiu Tianyang was stunned for a moment and then smiled involuntarily, his eyelids drooping.
Suddenly not embarrassed - rather bitter than embarrassing.
"Uncle... It's okay," he clasped his hands, put them on his knees in a position as natural as possible, and rubbed his thumbs mechanically from side to side as a way to calm himself, "he is no longer in Beijing, don't worry. . You won't meet him here."
There was silence in the box.
Shen Yan was silent for a long time, wondering if she didn't want to continue asking for details - for example, the whereabouts of her father.
Shen Yan did not continue, but Qiu Tianyang began to slowly say: "Uncle has left the job some time ago and settled abroad. Now he is in Canada, because..."
The words stopped here for a while, and the voice was lowered at the same time as the tone was extra cautious.
"Because, your sister... was admitted to the University of Toronto as a graduate student and went there to study, so... "
The person at the other end of the seat remained silent, indifferent, and did not respond at all. But "no reaction at all" is better for Qiu Tianyang.
At least, compared to the old hatred mixed with deep pain... much better...
"You don't seem to have as much reaction to your uncle's family as you used to."
When I was thinking about it, I unknowingly blurted out.
When Qiu Tianyang said it, he was also startled, and hurriedly closed his mouth, regretting his blunder. Shen Yan just sat silently, and he didn't even respond to those words, like a clay sculpture.
"I know, my uncle was sorry for you back then," Qiu Tianyang finally put the topic of this conversation on the table after a long time, "I too—"
"Enough." At this time, Shen Yan suddenly interrupted him, as if he didn't want to hear what was going on. But Qiu Tianyang insisted.
"Can you listen to me once? I've never had the opportunity to have a face-to-face talk with you like this. Just once, please listen to me."
Shen Yan did not answer, but did not deny it.
Qiu Tianyang took a deep breath, the palms of his left and right hands were sweating, wet and cold. Although the beginning of his story has the kind of bright colors that every family is decorated with lights during the New Year -
"When I was young, during the Chinese New Year and festivals, my uncle and his family would come to visit, eat and chat together... In my impression, my uncle is family-friendly, steady, and always considers his family. Their family of three is always happy in front of me. , looks very happy. At that time, my father went to other places to talk business every three days, and my mother was busy with work, so there were very few opportunities to get together, so I was very envious of a family like my uncle." He smiled a little dejectedly and confessed his thoughts, "I admired him, admired him, and once regarded him as an example of a husband and a father in my mind."
Yes, role model.
The man's appearance is very serious and unsmiling, but he often has an unexpectedly gentle expression in front of his relatives.
The man's wife is dignified, well-mannered, and has a very respectable maiden's background.
The man's daughter is very smart and lovely.
Whether it is a man himself or a man's family, it is like a perfect template for him to look forward to, making him want to put his own life on it and copy it again.
"It wasn't until that day... that I knew I was wrong."
He stated word by word that the original warm tones also peeled off layer after layer of unpacked wrapping paper, and finally the black box inside appeared.
"That day, I heard my aunt crying to my mother in the living room and accusing my uncle that there was a woman outside, and that the son that the woman gave to my uncle was in his twenties, and he was still sunk with his uncle's tacit consent. Raised by the family secretly…”
His breath slowly stagnated, and there was a pain in his voice.
"I... The belief of the past ten or twenty years completely collapsed overnight. That kind of blow is similar to being betrayed, do you understand?"
Shen Yan was silent, her lips pursed tightly from beginning to end, but her eyes were lower than before.
Qiu Tianyang continued to speak numbly.
"I, I just say this on my own behalf... My aunt is very kind to me. From childhood to adulthood, every time she came to visit, she would bring me delicious and fun food, and her smile was always kind. When I heard my uncle was there If you do something like this to her outside, you will get angry all of a sudden, and you will tremble with anger."
Speaking of which, he also laughed in embarrassment, "Ha".
"And I actually found out that I knew you—yes, I also found out that it wasn't a coincidence that I knew you, it was my grandfather... that was your grandfather's hard work."
-【Tianyang, can I ask you to bring someone? 】
The old man who I hadn't seen for a long time unexpectedly appeared at the door of my daughter's house one day. After entering the door silently, he didn't say anything. He just held his grandson's hand gently, chatting about the current situation without a word, and then talking about him and a few friends together. When I dubbed this matter online, I suddenly said such a sentence.
Bring a person
What's so hard about bringing someone along.
At that time, there were only five of them, and online dubbing was in its infancy. There was not even the concept of a "network dubbing circle". There were only scattered listeners, and there were even fewer dubbing people. One more person means more. A little lively, very good. What's more, the old man has a very special reason: [The child has a speech disorder, I hope this can help him get out slowly, and you can also make friends].
So he agreed without hesitation.
Although his mother, who was sitting and listening at the time, looked slightly dodged and scruples, he didn't get into it very much, and obtained the contact information of the other party on the Internet from the old man.
There are two differences between online contact and real contact.
One, you don't need to meet.
Second, no real name is required.
"Grandpa deliberately concealed your name and identity. I hope we can get to know each other without knowing each other, gradually become familiar with each other, and then slowly repair the relationship between you and the rest of the Shen family in our generation." Qiu Tianyang said in a low voice. At the same time, he looked down at the ground.
The line of water that had just accidentally spilled onto the ground just happened to be between him and Shen Yan, drawing a line of dotted lines.
But the traces of water will always dry out over time, and the boundaries will always disappear little by little.
"He always insists... You have the blood of the Shen family on your body, and one day you should come back to us and become part of our family."
It's a pity that the paper can't contain the fire after all - less than a month later, the man's wife found out about the plan, and found his mother to cry with grief and anger.
"I pretended I didn't know about your Shen family raising him secretly for so many years. He didn't do anything, so I put up with it, and now you are planning to bring back that illegitimate child? You're a big sister. Open one eye and close the other, then what are we mother and daughter in the Shen family?" The tearful woman left him, who didn't know how to speak, so there was only her silent mother, as if she was holding onto a driftwood. Grabbing his sleeve tightly, "Tianyang! Tianyang! Do you know who you are dating!"
He didn't know, he didn't understand until this moment. Understand who this "old six" who was introduced to the dubbing team by himself and became the sixth member is.
At the same time as I understood, a deep sense of anger surged into my heart—
"At the time, I only had one thought," he said timidly, "that is... how to teach your little three son a lesson so hard that he can't cheer up again."
In those days, both traditional morality and public opinion, people generally held a one-sided and strongly critical attitude towards the third party in marriage, and deeply despised illegitimate children.
"They must have only given birth to a daughter because they disliked me, so they want to keep the son born by your uncle and a woman outside, and pass on the surname of 'Shen' in the future to inherit the family property, and my Yuan spouse and your uncle gave birth to a bright and upright child. But there is no good ending, is there any reason for this?"
The woman said so in a shrill voice.
Although these were just reasons she imagined, but he, who didn't know everything happened, completely took them seriously.
—Yeah, if you don’t stand on the side of Yuan Pei, can you still stand on the side of Xiaosan
- Doesn't everyone understand this principle
"what… "
After Qiu Tianyang finished speaking for such a long paragraph, his throat was slightly hoarse due to lack of water. He rubbed his temples decadently with his hands, and a few locks of hair fell gently along his movement, which was similar to his current mental state.
He suddenly took a long breath, pulled out the cork of the bottle in front of him, poured half a glass, and drank it.
Shen Yan's eyes were raised to face him at this time, but she just silently watched the wine in the glass emptied a little bit, and said nothing in the end.
Qiu Tianyang frowned tightly and finished drinking, then he threw the glass on the table, and used the alcohol to say the last paragraph he didn't want to say.
"At that time, I was far from restraining my temper, especially when I entered the network matching circle. After having so many small fans, people became arrogant. After I decided to teach you a good lesson, I continued to laugh on the surface and said that I would help you overcome you. The speech barrier, in fact, has been secretly waiting to see how you make a fool of yourself."
"But I didn't expect you to be so serious and to be with everyone in a down-to-earth manner. The second one and everyone liked you very much, but they made me see my own shortcomings. I was... very similar to the current Tongquetai. I Knowing the advantages of my voice, and using this advantage to live leisurely in the circle, the praise from the fans made me self-righteous, and I didn't care about the dubbing at all. So when I saw that you were really serious Practice, play, I just… I want to beat you even more.”
He paused, his voice trembling. Acknowledging that this past was harder and more shameful than he had imagined.
Only when I said it out did I realize how bad my behavior was at that time—
"I, never let you have the opportunity to be the main role, I always throw you the most tricky and unwanted characters in the script, and even find some... I throw out the book with the illegitimate child plot for you to match, listen to you on SK When I make frequent mistakes in the opposite scenes, I am happy in front of the screen."
He reached out his hand at this time, wanting to pour another glass of wine.
Shen Yan suddenly clasped the wine glass firmly with his hand and did not let him touch it.
"Enough." This is the second time Shen Yan has said this tonight, and it is still light and tasteless, but this time it is obviously a bit more depressed.
Qiu Tianyang stared blankly at the hand he was blocking in front of him, his eyes fluctuating, the focus was not on that hand, but dazedly spinning around in the reflection of the cup under the lamp, and the words were a little scattered.
"When I found out that you were a comrade... I was very happy to go and tell my aunt that you absolutely couldn't grab your sister's inheritance, because you couldn't pass the lineage to the Shen family."
"I, I actually didn't discriminate against people with this sexual orientation, because there are many such people in the CV... I would say this at the time, the purpose was to rule out a concern for my aunt, but I didn't expect... No I thought that she would shake this matter out in front of my uncle and the others to insult you."
Shen Yan's lips moved slightly, and her tone was like a blank piece of paper without any trace of emotion: "I am who I am, whether she says it or not, I will only be myself."
Just like in the third year of high school, when the woman first discovered his existence, he didn't deny it when everyone knew that he was an illegitimate child.
Because facts are facts.
Who to say, when to say, and to whom... can't change these ironclad facts.
"I am the same as I was before. I don't need my father to agree with me, I don't need him to interfere with my life choices, and I don't need any of his property..." His eyes were fixed on Qiu Tianyang, his breath was trying to suppress himself His emotions were slightly rushed, and he said hoarsely, "But there is one thing, I will never let it."
Qiu Tianyang was stunned.
After a while, he smiled slightly pale, and the smile was ugly.
"You mean the house you grew up in?" he asked, clasping his fingers together with the utmost strength. Even so, he couldn't hide his embarrassment. "That... the house where I almost obeyed my aunt and kicked you out of it during my grandfather's hospitalization?"
At this moment, Shen Yan suddenly stood up, grabbed his neckline with both hands, and pulled the man up from the seat!
"Only this, only the memories my grandfather left me, you can't take away—"
His hand was tightly tugging at the tie of the other party's tie, shaking.
His voice was shaking, and he couldn't tell whether it was because he remembered the grief of the old man's death, or the deep feeling of being stopped by the Shen family outside the door of the ward, tearing and struggling on the cold floor, trying to go in and see the old man for the last time. Deep despair and anger, a line of tears suddenly burst out of my eyes and hurriedly fell.